Gossen Light Meters

Video Direct has been an authorized Bogen dealer for many years, and thus also an authorized U.S. retailer for many of the biggest names in the business. These include Gossen light meters.

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Light changing in intensity or color at a shooting location could mean frustration or inspiration, which can be a challenge to a photographer. Therefore, it is most important not to leave the exposure to chance or luck. Hand held exposure meters can be useful instruments in creating images, offering possibilities often far exceeding the metering systems built into cameras. Easy incident light measurement with diffusers, or intricate contrast measurements with spot attachments all help to assist the photographer meet the challenge of changing light conditions.

With more than 65 years in manufacturing exposure meters, the GOSSEN Company have the expertise and knowledge of the dark and light aspects of photography, and have been helping photographers make the very best of every lighting situation to achieve the perfect exposure.

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Replacing the Gossen Starlite, the Starlite 2 is Gossen's latest all-in-one top of the line light meter offering unrivaled capabilities and multiple functions. Three individual meters are specially incorporated into this one precision-measuring instrument: An exposure meter for ambient and flash; A CINE meter for filming; A light measuring instrument for illumination intensities and luminances. Among its many metrological highlights, the Starlite 2 includes a broad range of high performance features for flash measurement. It's capable of measuring individual flashes, calculating multiple flash illumination and analyzing flash and continuous illumination -- even with several flash units in combination. The Starlite 2 provides the user with precise results, even for highly complex tasks.

With its compact design, outstanding diversity and high performance, the Gossen Digipro F2 is the ideal standard tool for many professional photographers, demanding amateurs and filmmakers. The included technology and features are high quality, and operation is clear-cut and easy to understand. The universal Digipro F2 is laid out for use in the studio, as well as outdoors. It makes quick work of incident and reflected light measurements for flash and ambient light, displays mixed lighting conditions as well as required multiple flashes, and performs contrast measurements. The values are displayed in full, 1/2 or 1/3 increments depending on the selected setting. The Digipro F2 masters all common lighting situations for analog and digital photography, as well as filmmaking, with outstanding precision and time-tested quality.

The Mavolux 5032C is a handy, easy to use, highly accurate light meter capable of measuring illumination in either footcandles or lux. Candelas/m2 and footlamberts can also be measured with the optical luminance attachment. The Mavolux 5032C is equipped with color correction, so that its spectral response is matched to that of the human eye. Integrated cosine correction is included in order to ensure that oblique incident light is also evaluated correctly.

The Gossen Mavo-Monitor is a precision digital instrument for measuring luminance with the measuring sensor placed directly on a luminous or backlighted surface, for instance monitors (CRT/LCD), TV screens, light boxes, light panels, traffic signs and ground glass. An easy to handle, user-friendly measuring instrument for professional applications in industry and service, for special checks and certified testings according to the existing safety regulations, above all at work stations, in medical and office systems.

The Lightmeter that fits in the palm of your hand. Digisix is a Digital/Analog exposure meter. It's great looking, great value and a true travel companion that's packed with more features than you'd ever expect. The Digisix is small enough to sit comfortably on your camera's hot shoe (with optional shoe adapter), and sports a digital read-out and analog scale for ambient light levels that can be measured in reflective or incident mode. Digital read-out in EV is easily transferred to a setting ring where all the shutter speed/f-stop combinations can be read at a glance. But the Digisix doesn't stop there. Not only is it an exposure meter, but it also offers a functioning clock with alarm, a timer for timing long exposures, plus a precision digital thermometer which measures temperatures and stores a high and low value.

The Digiflash 2 offers all the features of the Digisix meter above, plus the added benefit of taking flash readings with a range of f/2 - f/32 at 100 ISO. The Digiflash is microprocessor controlled and runs on a Lithium battery type CR 2032. The meter weighs approximately 1.4 oz including battery, and comes with a carry case, strap and battery.